Re: a question about tst-cancel2

"Hu, Boris" wrote:
> 
> thanks for your reply.  :)
> 
> yeah, pthread_testcancel() is a point to execute cancel buffer
> code. But in tst-cancel2, there is no place to call
> pthread_testcancel().  :(  So there must be another place
> to call __do_cancel().
> 
> I have checked all places to call __do_cancel(),
> init.c::sigcancel_handler()
> _pthread_cleanup_pop_restore()
> pthread_testcancel()
> pthread_enable_asynccancel()
> pthread_enable_asynccancel_2()
> __libc_enable_asynccancel()
> pthread_exit()
> pthread_setcancelstate()
> pthread_setcanceltype()
> 
> but I failed to find the tst-cancel2 to run one of them. :(
> 
In this case, it will run from sigcancel_handler(). Here the write()
is a cancellation point and enables async-cancellation before it waits
in kernel. The pthread_cancel sends SIGCANCEL signal and this
handler gets called, which then calls __do_cancel.

- Saurabh